The

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is home to the largest and most prominent ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, hosting Chinese populations representing all 34 provincial-level administrative units of China. The Chinese American population of the New York City metropolitan area was an estimated 893,697 as of 2017, constituting the largest and most prominent metropolitan Asian national diaspora outside Asia. New York City itself contains by far the highest ethnic Chinese population of any individual city outside Asia, estimated at 628,763 as of 2017. New York City and its surrounding metropolitan area, including

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and parts of

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, is home to 12 Chinatowns, early U.S. racial ghettos where Chinese immigrants were made to live for economic survival and physical safety that are now known as important sites of tourism and urban economic activity. Six Chinatowns (or nine, New York including the emerging Chinatowns in Elmhurst and Whitestone,

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, and

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) are located in New York City proper, and one each is located in Nassau County, Long Island;

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;

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; and Parsippany-Troy Hills, New Jersey. This excludes fledgling ethnic Chinese enclaves emerging throughout the New York metropolitan area, such as

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for both the global

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New religious movement as well as its

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performance arts troupe. The Chinese American community in the New York metropolitan area is rising rapidly in population as well as economic and political influence. Continuing significant immigration from Mainland China has spurred the ongoing rise of the Chinese population in the New York metropolitan area; this immigration and its accompanying growth in the impact of the Chinese presence continue to be fueled by New York's status as an alpha global city, its high

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, its extensive

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system, and the New York metropolitan area's enormous economic marketplace.

History

Among the earliest documented arrivals of

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in New York City were of "sailors and peddlers" in the 1830s. These arrivals were followed in 1847 by three students who came to continue their education in the United States. One of these scholars, Yung Wing, soon became the first Chinese American to graduate from a U.S. college in 1854, when Wing graduated from

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. Many more Chinese immigrants arrived and settled in

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throughout the 1800s, including an 1870s wave of Chinese immigrants searching for "gold." By 1880, the enclave around Five Points was estimated to have from 200 to as many as 1,100 members. However, the

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, which went into effect in 1882, caused an abrupt decline in the number of Chinese who emigrated to New York and the rest of the United States. Later, in 1943, the Chinese were given a small quota, the

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caused a revival in Chinese immigration, and the community's population gradually increased until 1968, when the quota was lifted and the Chinese American population skyrocketed, and in 1992, New York City officially began providing language assistance for

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materials in Chinese, given that this population had reached a critical mass in numbers.

Demographics

New York City boroughs

New York City has the largest Chinese population of any city outside of Asia and within the U.S. with an estimated population of 573,388 in 2014, and continues to be a primary destination for new Chinese immigrants. New York City is subdivided into official municipal

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, which themselves are home to significant Chinese populations, with

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and

, adjacently located on

, leading the fastest growth. After the City of New York itself, the boroughs of Queens and Brooklyn encompass the largest Chinese populations, respectively, of all municipalities in the United States.

Large-scale immigration continues from China

In 2013, 19,645 Chinese legally immigrated to the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA core based statistical area from

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, greater than the combined totals for

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and

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, the next two largest Chinese American gateways; in 2012, this number was 24,763; 28,390 in 2011; and 19,811 in 2010. These numbers do not include the remainder of the New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area, nor do they include the significantly smaller numbers of legal immigrants from

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and Hong Kong. There has additionally been a consequential component of

Chinese emigration Waves of Chinese emigration have happened throughout history. They include the emigration to Southeast Asia beginning from the 10th century during the Tang Dynasty, to the Americas during the 19th century, particularly during the California go ...

of illegal origin, most notably Fuzhou people from

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and

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from

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in mainland China, specifically destined for New York City, beginning in the 1980s. Quantification of the magnitude of this modality of emigration is imprecise and varies over time, but it appears to continue unabated on a significant basis. As of April 2019,

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(flying non-stop to

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China Southern Airlines China Southern Airlines Company Limited is an airline headquartered in Baiyun District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province and is the largest airline in China. Established on 1 July 1988 following the restructuring of the CAAC Airlines that acqu ...

EVA Air EVA Airways Corporation (pronounced as three letters: ; ) (), of which "EVA" stands for Evergreen Airways, is a Taiwanese international airline based at Taoyuan International Airport near Taipei, Taiwan, operating passenger and dedicated ca ...

Hainan Airlines Hainan Airlines Co., Ltd. (HNA, ) is an airline headquartered in Haikou, Hainan, People's Republic of China. The airline is rated as a 5-star airline by Skytrax. It is the largest civilian-run and majority state-owned air transport company ...

, and XiamenAir all served

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(JFK), while

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and

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served both JFK and

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in the New York metropolitan areaand among U.S. carriers,

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flew non-stop from Newark to

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, and

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. Hainan Airlines flies non-stop from JFK to both

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and

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in Western China; while China Southern Airlines is expected to start non-stop flights from JFK to

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, in Central China, in July 2019. Meanwhile,

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flies to Singapore, where

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is one of the official state languages, both from Newark (with one of the longest non-stop flights in the world) and from JFK. Within the Chinese population, New York City is also home to between 150,000 and 200,000 Fuzhounese Americans, who have exerted a large influence upon the Chinese restaurant industry across the United States; the vast majority of the growing population of Fuzhounese Americans have settled in New York. The Chinese immigrant population in New York City grew from 261,500 foreign-born individuals in 2000 to 350,000 in 2011, representing a more than 33% growth of that demographic. Chinese immigrants represented 12,000 of the country's

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requests in fiscal year 2013, of which 4,000 applied for asylum to the New York-area asylum office.

Movement within and outside the metropolitan area

As many immigrant Chinese to New York City move up the socioeconomic ladder, many have relocated to the

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s for more living space as well as seeking particular

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s for their children. In this process, new Chinese enclaves and

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commercial districts have emerged and are growing in these suburbs, particularly in Nassau County on

and in the four counties of

that start with the letter " M": Mercer County, Middlesex County, Monmouth County, and Morris County. Some Chinese New Yorkers are also migrating to

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, and eastern

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Geography

The

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was the original Chinatown. Little Fuzhou in

is an ethnoculturally distinct neighborhood within the Manhattan Chinatown itself, populated primarily by Fujianese people. The Sunset Park neighborhood of

houses another such Little Fuzhou.

and Brooklyn are home to other Chinatowns. The Flushing as well as Elmhurst areas of Queens and multiple burgeoning neighborhoods in Brooklyn also have spawned the development of numerous other Chinatowns. Most of Manhattan, as well as Corona in Queens, the

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and

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areas of Brooklyn, and northeast

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, have also received significant Chinese settlement.

Chinatowns

Manhattan (曼哈頓華埠)

Manhattan's Chinatown holds the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere.* * * * * Manhattan's

is also one of the oldest Chinese ethnic enclaves. The Manhattan Chinatown is one of nine Chinatown neighborhoods in New York City, as well as one of twelve in the

, which contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, comprising an estimated 893,697 uniracial individuals as of 2017. Manhattan's Chinatown is actually divided into two different portions. The western portion is the older and original part of Manhattan's Chinatown, primarily dominated by Cantonese populations and known colloquially as the Cantonese Chinatown. Cantonese were the earlier settlers of Manhattan's Chinatown, originating mostly from Hong Kong and from Taishan in Guangdong Province, as well as from Shanghai. They form most of the Chinese population of the area surrounded by Mott and

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Streets. However, within Manhattan's Chinatown lies Little Fuzhou or The Fuzhou Chinatown on East Broadway and surrounding streets, occupied predominantly by immigrants from the province of

, Mainland China. They are the later settlers, from

Fuzhou Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute ...

, Fujian, forming the majority of the Chinese population in the vicinity of East Broadway. This eastern portion of Manhattan's Chinatown developed much later, primarily after the Fuzhou immigrants began moving in. Areas surrounding "Little Fuzhou" consist of significant numbers of Cantonese immigrants from the

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of China; however, the main concentration of people speaking the

Cantonese language Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding a ...

is in the older western portion of Manhattan's Chinatown. Despite the fact that the Mandarin speaking communities were becoming established in Flushing and Elmhurst areas of

during the 1980s–1990s and even though the Fuzhou immigrants spoke Mandarin often as well, however, due to their socioeconomic status, they could not afford the housing prices in Mandarin speaking enclaves in Queens, which were more middle class and the job opportunities were limited. They instead chose to settle in Manhattan's Chinatown for affordable housing and as well as the job opportunities that were available such as the seamstress factories and restaurants, despite the traditional Cantonese dominance until the 1990s. Eventually this pattern was repeated in Brooklyn's Sunset Park Chinatown, but on a much more immense scale. However, the Cantonese dialect that has dominated Chinatown for decades is being rapidly swept aside by Mandarin, the national language of China and the

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due to the influx of Fuzhou immigrants who often speak Mandarin and as well as there are now more Mandarin speaking visitors coming to visit the neighborhood. Chinatown's modern borders are roughly Delancey Street on the north, Chambers Street on the south, East Broadway on the east, and

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on the west.

Queens (皇后華埠)

New York City's satellite Chinatowns in

, as well as in Brooklyn, are thriving as traditionally urban

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, as large-scale Chinese immigration into New York continues, with the largest metropolitan Chinese population outside Asia. busy intersection of Main Street,

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, and 41st Avenue in the Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), in Queens. The segment of Main Street between Kissena Boulevard and Roosevelt Avenue, punctuated by the

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overpass, represents the cultural heart of Flushing Chinatown. Housing more than 30,000 individuals born in China alone, the largest by this metric outside Asia, Flushing is home to one of the largest and fastest-growing Chinatowns in the world. Massage parlors in the Flushing Chinatown have become the hub of organized prostitution in the United States. The Flushing Chinatown, in the Flushing area of the borough of Queens in New York City, is one of the largest and fastest growing ethnic Chinese enclaves outside Asia, as well as within New York City itself. Main Street and the area to its west, particularly along Roosevelt Avenue, have become the primary nexus of Flushing Chinatown. However, Flushing Chinatown continues to expand southeastward along

and northward beyond

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. In the 1970s, a Chinese community established a foothold in the neighborhood of Flushing, whose demographic constituency had been predominantly non-Hispanic white.

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began the surge of immigration. It originally started off as ''Little Taipei'' or ''Little Taiwan'' due to the large Taiwanese population. Due to the then dominance of working class Cantonese immigrants of Manhattan's Chinatown including its poor housing conditions, they could not relate to them and settled in Flushing. Later on, when other groups of Non-Cantonese Chinese, mostly speaking Mandarin started arriving into NYC, like the Taiwanese, they could not relate to Manhattan's then dominant Cantonese Chinatown, as a result they mainly settled with Taiwanese to be around Mandarin speakers. Later, Flushing's Chinatown would become the main center of different Chinese regional groups and cultures in NYC. By 1990, Asians constituted 41% of the population of the core area of Flushing, with Chinese in turn representing 41% of the Asian population. However, ethnic Chinese are constituting an increasingly dominant proportion of the Asian population as well as of the overall population in Flushing and its Chinatown. A 1986 estimate by the Flushing Chinese Business Association approximated 60,000 Chinese in Flushing alone.

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(including

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Fuzhou dialect Fuzhou (; , Fuzhounese: Hokchew, ''Hók-ciŭ''), alternately romanized as Foochow, is the capital and one of the largest cities in Fujian province, China. Along with the many counties of Ningde, those of Fuzhou are considered to constitute ...

Min Nan Southern Min (), Minnan ( Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwan ...

Fujianese,

Wu Chinese The Wu languages (; Wu romanization and IPA: ''wu6 gniu6'' [] ( Shanghainese), ''ng2 gniu6'' [] (Suzhounese), Mandarin pinyin and IPA: ''Wúyǔ'' []) is a major group of Sinitic languages spoken primarily in Shanghai, Zhejiang, Zhejiang Provin ...

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, Hangzhou dialect,

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Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding a ...

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, and English are all prevalently spoken in Flushing Chinatown, while the

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is now emerging. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available there. Given its rapidly growing status, the Flushing Chinatown has surpassed the original New York City Chinatown in the Borough of Manhattan in size and population, while Queens and Brooklyn vie for the largest Chinese population of any municipality in the United States other than New York City as a whole. Elmhurst, another neighborhood in Queens, also has a large and growing Chinese community. Previously a small area with Chinese shops on Broadway between 81st Street and Cornish Avenue, this new Chinatown has now expanded to 45th Avenue and Whitney Avenue. Since 2000, thousands of Chinese Americans have migrated into Whitestone, Queens (白石), given the sizeable presence of the neighboring Flushing Chinatown, and have continued their expansion eastward in Queens and into neighboring, highly educated Nassau County (拿騷縣) on Long Island (長島), which has become the most popular

an destination in the U.S. for Chinese.

Brooklyn (布魯克林華埠)

By 1988, 90% of the storefronts on Eighth Avenue in

Sunset Park, Brooklyn Sunset Park is a neighborhood in the southwestern part of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City, bounded by Park Slope and Green-Wood Cemetery to the north, Borough Park to the east, Bay Ridge to the south, and Upper New York Bay to the ...

, were abandoned. Chinese immigrants then moved into this area, consisting of not only new arrivals from China, but also members of Manhattan's Chinatown seeking refuge from high rents, who flocked to the relatively less expensive property costs and rents of Sunset Park and formed the original Brooklyn Chinatown, which now extends for 20 blocks along 8th Avenue, from 42nd to 62nd Streets. This relatively new but rapidly growing Chinatown located in Sunset Park was originally settled by Cantonese immigrants like Manhattan's Chinatown in the past. However, in the recent decade, an influx of Fuzhou immigrants has been pouring into Brooklyn's Chinatown and supplanting the Cantonese at a significantly higher rate than in Manhattan's Chinatown, and Brooklyn's Chinatown is now home to mostly Fuzhou immigrants. In the past, during the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of newly arriving Fuzhou immigrants settled within Manhattan's Chinatown, and the first ''Little Fuzhou'' community emerged within Manhattan's Chinatown; by the first decade of the 21st century, however, the epicenter of the massive Fuzhou influx had shifted to Brooklyn's Chinatown, which is now home to the fastest-growing and perhaps largest Fuzhou population in New York City. Unlike the Little Fuzhou in Manhattan's Chinatown, which remains surrounded by areas which continue to house significant populations of Cantonese, all of Brooklyn's Chinatown is swiftly consolidating into New York City's new Little Fuzhou. However, a growing community of

immigrants from China's

is now also arriving in Brooklyn's Chinatown. Also in contrast to Manhattan's Chinatown, which still successfully continues to carry a large Cantonese population and retain the large Cantonese community established decades ago in its western section, where Cantonese residents have a communal venue to shop, work, and socialize, Brooklyn's Chinatown has seen a change from its primarily Cantonese community identity to a more diverse Chinese melange. Like Manhattan's Chinatown during the 1980s and 1990s (pre-gentrification), Brooklyn's Chinatown became the main affordable housing center for Fuzhou immigrantsand for job opportunities ranging from seamstress factories and restaurantsdespite its domination by Cantonese immigrants in the earlier years.

Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22nd ...

, as well as

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Homecrest, Brooklyn Homecrest is a neighborhood situated in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, sometimes considered as part of Sheepshead Bay. It is bordered by Kings Highway to the north, Avenue X to the south, Coney Island Avenue to the west, and Ocean Avenu ...

, in addition to

Bay Ridge Bay Ridge is a neighborhood in the southwest corner of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bounded by Sunset Park to the north, Dyker Heights to the east, the Narrows and the Belt Parkway to the west, and Fort Hamilton Army Base an ...

, Borough Park,

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Dyker Heights Dyker Heights is a predominantly residential neighborhood in the southwest corner of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is on a hill between Bay Ridge, Bensonhurst, Borough Park, and Gravesend Bay. The neighborhood is bounded by 7th an ...

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, and Marine Park, have given rise to the development of Brooklyn's newer satellite Chinatowns, as evidenced by the growing number of Chinese-run fruit markets, restaurants, beauty and

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s, small offices, and computer and

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dealers. While the foreign-born Chinese population in New York City jumped 35 percent between 2000 and 2013, to 353,000 from about 262,000, the foreign-born Chinese population in Brooklyn increased 49 percent during the same period, to 128,000 from 86,000, according to ''

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''. The emergence of multiple Chinatowns in Brooklyn is due to the overcrowding and high property values in Brooklyn's main Chinatown in Sunset Park, and many Cantonese immigrants have moved out of Sunset Park into these new areas. As a result, the newer emerging, but smaller Brooklyn's Chinatowns are primarily Cantonese dominated while the main Brooklyn Chinatown is increasingly dominated by Fuzhou emigres.

List

*Chinatowns of NYC: ** Chinatown, Manhattan (紐約華埠) *** Little Hong Kong/Guangdong (小香港/廣東) *** Little Fuzhou (小福州) *** East Harlem (東哈萊姆) ** Chinatowns in Queens (皇后): *** Chinatown, Flushing (法拉盛華埠) *** Chinatown, Elmhurst (唐人街, 艾姆赫斯特) *** Corona, Queens *** Whitestone, Queens (白石) ** Chinatowns in Brooklyn (布魯克林): *** Chinatown, Sunset Park (布鲁克林華埠) *** Chinatown, Avenue U (唐人街, U大道) *** Chinatown, Bensonhurst (唐人街, 本森社区)

Culture

Languages

For much of the overall history of the Chinese community in New York City,

Taishanese Taishanese (), alternatively romanized in Cantonese as Toishanese or Toisanese, in local dialect as Hoisanese or Hoisan-wa, is a dialect of Yue Chinese native to Taishan, Guangdong. Although it is related to Cantonese, Taishanese has littl ...

was the dominant Chinese

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. After 1965, an influx of immigrants from

made

the dominant dialect for the next three decades. Later on, during the 1970s–80s, Mandarin and

-speaking immigrants began to arrive into New York City.

were settling into Flushing, Queens when it was still predominantly European American, while Fuzhou immigrants were settling in Manhattan's then very Cantonese-dominated Chinatown. The Taiwanese and Fuzhou people were the earliest significant numbers of Chinese immigrants to arrive into New York who spoke Mandarin but not Cantonese, although many spoke their regional Chinese dialects as well. Since the mid 1990s, an influx of immigrants from various parts of Mainland China began arriving later on eventually, with the increased influence of Mandarin in the Chinese-speaking world, and a desire of Chinese parents to have their children learn this language, Mandarin has been in the process of becoming the dominant

among the Chinese population of New York City. In the Manhattan Chinatown, many newer immigrants who speak Mandarin live around East Broadway, while Chinatowns in Brooklyn and Queens have also witnessed influxes of Mandarin-speaking Chinese as well as

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and

Southern Min Southern Min (), Minnan ( Mandarin pronunciation: ) or Banlam (), is a group of linguistically similar and historically related Sinitic languages that form a branch of Min Chinese spoken in Fujian (especially the Minnan region), most of Taiwa ...

speakers.

Unique Demographics of NYC Chinese Enclaves

However, the different Chinese cultural and language groups as well as

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es are often subdivided among different

of New York City. In Queens, the Chinatowns are very diverse, composed of different Chinese regional groups mainly speaking Mandarin although speaking other dialects as well, and who are more often middle- or upper-middle class. As a result, the Mandarin dialect is primarily concentrated in Queens. In addition, Flushing's Chinatown is now the largest Chinese cultural center of New York City, including being the most diverse with many different Chinese populations from many various regions of China and Taiwan, but in since the 2000s, especially since the 2010s, the Northeastern Chinese immigrants have been increasingly becoming a more dominant Chinese population in Flushing Queens. However, since Manhattan's Chinatown and Brooklyn's Chinese enclaves still hold large Cantonese speaking populations, who were the earlier Chinese immigrants to arrive into New York City and with the popularity of Hong Kong

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and entertainment being widely available, the Cantonese dialect and culture still hold a large influence, and Cantonese is still a dialect in those enclaves. Even though there are very large Fuzhou populations in Manhattan's Chinatown and Brooklyn's Chinese enclaves, many of whom speak Mandarin as well, the influence of Mandarin in those enclaves is as only one of the dialects in addition to Cantonese, rather than being the dominant oneunlike in the Chinese enclaves in Queens, where Mandarin is the most dominant dialect and as well as an almost exclusive dialect, despite the presence of a high diversity of Chinese regional languages in Queenssince there are fewer Mandarin speakers besides the Fuzhou population in Manhattan and Brooklyn than in Queens. However, in Brooklyn, Fuzhou speakers predominate in the large Chinatown in Sunset Park while the several smaller emerging Chinatowns in various sections of

Bensonhurst Bensonhurst is a residential neighborhood in the southwestern section of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. The neighborhood is bordered on the northwest by 14th Avenue, on the northeast by 60th Street, on the southeast by Avenue P and 22n ...

and in a section of

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are primarily Cantonese speakers, unlike in Manhattan's Chinatown, where the Cantonese enclave and Fuzhou enclave are directly adjacent to each other. Therefore, Mandarin and Cantonese dialects significantly varies between the different Chinatowns of Sunset Park, Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay. Cantonese is the main variety of Chinese spoken in Bensonhurst's and Sheepshead Bay's Chinatowns, since they are mostly Cantonese populated; Mandarin is another, but less dominant variety. Since Sunset Park's Chinatown is now mostly Fuzhou populated, Mandarin is more dominant there. In Manhattan's Chinatown, Cantonese is dominant in the western portion and Fuzhouese in the eastern portion. Cantonese and Mandarin are equally spoken there due to the high number of Mainland Chinese visitors and Cantonese residents from other neighborhoods. The Cantonese and Fuzhou populations are often more working class. However, because of the gentrification in Manhattan's Chinatown, Sunset Park in Brooklyn is increasingly becoming the main target for newly arrived Fuzhou immigrants while Bensonhurst and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn are increasingly becoming the main targets for the newly arrived Cantonese immigrants. This shift has now resulted in Brooklyn's Chinatowns rapidly replacing Manhattan's Chinatown as the largest primary gathering cultural centers for the Cantonese and Fuzhou populations of New York City. Chinatown cooks

Cuisine

Given that the New York City metropolitan area has become home to the largest overseas Chinese population outside of Asia, all popular styles of regional Chinese cuisine have commensurately become ubiquitously accessible in New York City, including

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, Hunanese, Szechuan,

, Fujianese,

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, Korean-Chinese, and

Malaysian Chinese cuisine Malaysian Chinese cuisine is derived from the culinary traditions of Chinese Malaysian immigrants and their descendants, who have adapted or modified their culinary traditions under the influence of Malaysian culture as well as immigration pat ...

. Even the relatively obscure Dongbei style of cuisine indigenous to Northeast China is now available in

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, as well as Mongolian cuisine and

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. The availability of the regional variations of Chinese cuisine originating from throughout the different

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is most apparent in the city's Chinatowns in Queens, particularly the Flushing Chinatown (法拉盛華埠), but is also notable in the city's Chinatowns in Brooklyn and

Kosher preparation of Chinese food

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preparation of Chinese food is also widely available in New York City, given the metropolitan area's large

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and particularly

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populations. The perception that American Jews eat at Chinese restaurants on Christmas Day is documented in media as a common stereotype with a basis in fact. The tradition may have arisen from the lack of other open restaurants on Christmas Day, as well as the close proximity of Jewish and Chinese immigrants to each other in New York City. Kosher Chinese food is usually prepared in New York City, as well as in other large cities with Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, under strict

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nical supervision as a prerequisite for Kosher certification.

News media

Numerous

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publications geared toward serving the

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are headquartered you in the

. The '' World Journal'', one of the largest Chinese-language newspapers outside of Asia, has its headquarters in Whitestone (白石), Queens.Machleder, Elaine
New World, New Look / Chinese-language daily gets a makeover
''

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''. March 30, 1998. A25 News. “Its headquarters and printing facilities have been in Whitestone since 1980”. Retrieved November 19, 2011. ''

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'' is headquartered in

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. '' The Epoch Times'', an international multi-language newspaper and media company affiliated with the

new religious movement, is also headquartered in Manhattan. The Hong Kong-based, multinational Chinese-language newspaper ''

Sing Tao Daily The ''Sing Tao Daily'' () (also known as ''Sing Tao Jih Pao'') is Hong Kong's oldest and second-largest Chinese language newspaper. It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying-shing () is chairman. Its English language sister p ...

'' maintains its overseas headquarters in Chinatown, Manhattan. The Beijing-based, English-language newspaper ''

China Daily ''China Daily'' () is an English-language daily newspaper owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. Overview ''China Daily'' has the widest print circulation of any English-language newspaper in China. ...

'' publishes a U.S. edition, which is based in the

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skyscraper in

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. In addition, the ''Global Chinese Times'' is published in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey, to serve both a growing global readership and New Jersey's growing Chinese population of over 150,000 in 2016.

Museums

The Museum of Chinese in America is located in the Manhattan Chinatown, at 215 Centre Street, and this prominent cultural institution has documented the Chinese American experience since 1980.

Chinese Lunar New Year

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is celebrated annually throughout New York City's Chinatowns. Chinese New Year was signed into law as an allowable school holiday in the

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by Governor Andrew Cuomo in December 2014, as absentee rates had run as high as 60% in some New York City schools on this day. In June 2015, New York City Mayor

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declared that the Lunar New Year would be made a public school holiday.

Religion

Beginning in 2006 many Chinese Catholics began worshipping at St. John Vianney Church in Flushing.

Education

P.S.184 is a public school in Manhattan's Chinatown, as part of the

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, that offers a dual-language instructional program in Mandarin and English. Conversely, the Yung Wing school, also in Manhattan's Chinatown and known additionally as P.S.124, is an

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within the

. The Huaxia Edison Chinese School operates in Edison, Middlesex County, New Jersey, as a branch of the ''Huaxia'' Chinese School system; while all students at the YingHua International School in nearby

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are fluent in Mandarin by 8th grade. Chinese Americans compose a disproportionate enrollment relative to the general population in the nine elite public high schools of New York City, including

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and Bronx Science High School.

Transportation

Numerous

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routes directly serve the multiple Chinatowns of New York City. The BMT Fourth Avenue Line () and BMT Brighton Line () connect Chinese communities in

and Brooklyn. The Little Fuzhou neighborhood within Chinatown, Manhattan, hosts the East Broadway station on the

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().

is served by the , while Sunset Park is served by the , and Bensonhurst is served by the . The

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() serves the burgeoning Chinese community of

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. Meanwhile, Flushing in Queens is served by the

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() of the New York City Subway, as well as by four stations of the

(LIRR)'s

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. A system of dollar vans operates between the different Chinatowns in New York City. The dollar vans (which are distinct from, and not to be confused with, Chinatown bus lines), go from

's Chinatown to places in

; Elmhurst, Queens; and

. There is also a service from Flushing to Sunset Park that does not pass through Manhattan. Contrary to their name, the dollar vans' fares are $2.50, which is cheaper than the New York City transit fares of $2.75 . There are also intercity bus services that operate from the Chinatowns in New York City. , the two largest Taiwanese airlines have provided free shuttle services to and from

in New York City for customers based in

. *

's service stops in Fort Lee, Parsippany, and

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's service stops in Jersey City, Piscataway, Fort Lee, and East Hanover.

Organizations

Area Chinese-American associations include the Millburn- Short Hills Chinese Association (MSHCA; ) in New Jersey, which hosts a moon festival each year. 2005 is the year of the organization's establishments. The Long Island Chinese American Association (LICAA) serves those on

. , Gordon Zhang is the president. Other associations include Chinese American Association of

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and the

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Chinese Association.

Political influence

The political stature of Chinese Americans in New York City has become prominent. As of 2017,

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, a self claimed Chinese billionaire turned political activist, has been in self-imposed exile in New York City, where he owns an apartment worth $68million on the

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of Manhattan, overlooking

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. He has continued to conduct a

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to bring attention to alleged corruption in the Chinese political system from his New York home.

-born John Liu, former

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member representing District 20, which includes Flushing Chinatown and other northern Queens neighborhoods, was elected

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in November 2009, becoming the first Asian American to be elected to a citywide office in New York City. Concomitantly, Peter Koo, born in Shanghai, was elected to succeed Liu to assume this council membership seat.

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became the first Chinese American woman representing Manhattan's Chinatown on the

, elected in 2009. Grace Meng is a member of the

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, representing New York's 6th congressional district in Queens since 2009. Of the more than 2,100 Asian Americans within the uniformed ranks of the

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(NYPD) in 2015about six percent of the totalroughly half were Chinese American, NYPD statistics show, a number which has grown tenfold since 1990.

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is a

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Democratic Party member of the

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representing the 65th district in

, elected in 2016, taking over the seat previously held by

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. In 2021 Republican Party politicians, including Curtis Sliwa, who ran for

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, attracted Chinese American voters who opposed Democratic Party policies in education and crime.

Economic influence

The economic influence of Chinese in New York City is growing as well. The majority of cash purchases of New York City real estate in the first half of 2015 were transacted by Chinese as a combination of overseas Chinese and Chinese Americans. The top three surnames of cash purchasers of Manhattan real estate during that time period were Chen, Liu, and Wong. Chinese have also invested billions of dollars into New York

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since 2013. According to ''

'', the

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under construction on

, slated to be among the world's tallest and most expensive with an estimated cost of $500million, has received $170million in funding from approximately 300 Chinese investors through the U.S. EB-5 immigrant investor program, which grants

permanent residency Permanent residency is a person's legal resident status in a country or territory of which such person is not a citizen but where they have the right to reside on a permanent basis. This is usually for a permanent period; a person with suc ...

to foreign investors in exchange for job-creating investments in the United States, with Chinese immigrating to New York City dominating this list. Chinese billionaires have been buying New York property to be used as pied-à-terres, often priced in the tens of millions of U.S. dollars each, and as of 2016, middle-class Chinese investors were purchasing real estate in New York. Chinese companies have also been raising billions of dollars on

stock exchange A stock exchange, securities exchange, or bourse is an exchange where stockbrokers and traders can buy and sell securities, such as shares of stock, bonds and other financial instruments. Stock exchanges may also provide facilities for t ...

s in New York via

initial public offering An initial public offering (IPO) or stock launch is a public offering in which shares of a company are sold to institutional investors and usually also to retail (individual) investors. An IPO is typically underwritten by one or more investme ...

s. The major

Chinese banks This is a list of banks in China, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. The central bank of the People's Republic of China is the People's Bank of China, a component of the State Council, the Central Government of China. The People's ...

maintain operational offices in New York City.

Notable people

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Gordon G. Chang Gordon Guthrie Chang (born July 5, 1951) is a columnist, author, and lawyer. He is the author of '' The Coming Collapse of China'' in which he attempted to predict the collapse of China and claimed that it would collapse by 2011. In December 20 ...

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Chien-Shiung Wu ) , spouse = , residence = , nationality = ChineseAmerican , field = Physics , work_institutions = Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica University of California at Berkeley Smith College Princeton University Columbia UniversityZhejiang ...

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Margaret Cho Margaret Moran Cho (born December 5, 1968) is an American comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and se ...

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Connie Chung Constance Yu-Hwa Chung (born August 20, 1946) is an American journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von B� ...

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Diana Eng Diana Eng (born in Jacksonville, Florida) is a Chinese-American fashion designer, author and fashion technologist based in New York. She is best known as contestant on the second season of the reality television program '' Project Runway''. ...

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David Ho David Da-i Ho (; born November 3, 1952) is a Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher, physician, and virologist who has made a number of scientific contributions to the understanding and treatment of HIV infection. He is the founding scientific ...

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Eddie Huang Edwyn Charles Huang (born March 1, 1982) is an American author, chef, restaurateur, food personality, producer, and former attorney. He was a co-owner of BaoHaus, a gua bao restaurant in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. Huang previously h ...

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David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays '' FOB'', '' Golden Child'', and '' Yel ...

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Andrea Jung Andrea Jung (鍾彬嫻, pinyin: Zhōng Bīnxián, jyutping: zung1 ban1 haa4) (born 1958) is a Canadian-American executive, non-profit leader, and prominent women's-issues supporter based in New York City. In April 2014, she became president and ...

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Li Baodong Li Baodong (; born April 1955) is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Permanent Representative of the People's Republic of China to the United Nations from 2010 to 2013. He was later succeeded by Liu Jieyi. Biography Li was born in April ...

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Li Hongzhi Li Hongzhi (, born 1951/2) is a Chinese religious leader. He is the founder and leader of Falun Gong, or ''Falun Dafa'', a United States-based new religious movement. Li began his public teachings of Falun Gong on 13 May 1992 in Changchun, and ...

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Phillip Lim Phillip Lim (born September 16, 1973, as Pheng Lim) is an American fashion designer of Chinese descent whose parents immigrated to America from Thailand during the Cambodian genocide. Lim co-founded and worked at the Los Angeles-based fashion labe ...

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Lucy Liu Lucy Alexis Liu is an American actress. Her accolades include winning a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Seoul International Drama Award, in addition to nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award. Liu has sta ...

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Richard Lui Richard Lui is an American journalist and news anchor for MSNBC and NBC News. Lui is currently a breaking news anchor for NBC and MSNBC, broadcasting from 30 Rockefeller Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. prior to that role he was a ...

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Chella Man Chella Man (born November 26, 1998) is an Asian American actor, model, artist, YouTuber, and LGBTQ activist. He is known for sharing his experiences as a transgender, deaf, genderqueer, Asian, and Jewish person of color. Man rose to wider ...

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Shen Wei Shen Wei () is a Chinese-American choreographer, painter, and director who resides in Chinese Americans in New York City, New York City. Widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural and interdisciplinary mode of movement-based p ...

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Fei Fei Sun Sun Feifei (; born March 20, 1989), commonly known as Fei Fei Sun, is a Chinese model based in New York City. She is ranked as the New Supers by Models.com. Top casting director Ashley Brokaw proclaimed Fei Fei as "an exceptional beauty " , co ...

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Vivienne Tam Vivienne Tam (, born 28 November 1957) is a fashion designer based in New York City. She was born in Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, and moved to Hong Kong at the age of three. She attended the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Tam's fashion brand ...

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Tsung-Dao Lee Tsung-Dao Lee (; born November 24, 1926) is a Chinese-American physicist, known for his work on parity violation, the Lee–Yang theorem, particle physics, relativistic heavy ion (RHIC) physics, nontopological solitons, and soliton stars ...

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Vera Wang Vera Ellen Wang (; born June 27, 1949) is an American fashion designer. Early life Vera Ellen Wang was born June 27, 1949 in New York City to Chinese parents who emigrated to the United States in the mid-1940s. Her mother, Florence Wu (Wu ...

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Yuja Wang Yuja Wang (; born February 10, 1987) is a Chinese classical pianist. She was born in Beijing, began studying piano there at age six, and went on to study at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and the Curtis Institute of Music in Phil ...

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Jeff Yang Jeff Yang () (born ) is an American writer, journalist, businessman, and business/media consultant who writes the ''Tao Jones'' column for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Previously, he was the "Asian Pop" columnist at the ''San Francisco Chronicle' ...

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Angela Yee Angela Yee (born January 3, 1976) is an American radio personality. She hosted the nationally syndicated morning show ''The Breakfast Club'' along with DJ Envy and Charlamagne tha God. She is on the Board of Governors of the We Are Family Fou ...

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Zhang Yesui Zhang Yesui (; born October 1953) is a Chinese diplomat who served as the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and Party Committee Secretary for the People's Republic of China. He was formerly the Chinese Ambassador to the United States. He has pr ...

Academia and humanities

* Anthony Chan –

chief economist Chief economist is a single-position job class having primary responsibility for the development, coordination, and production of economic and financial analysis. It is distinguished from the other economist positions by the broader scope of respons ...

JPMorgan Chase JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an American multinational investment bank and financial services holding company headquartered in New York City and incorporated in Delaware. As of 2022, JPMorgan Chase is the largest bank in the United States, t ...

; former economist at the

Federal Reserve Bank of New York The Federal Reserve Bank of New York is one of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks of the United States. It is responsible for the Second District of the Federal Reserve System, which encompasses the State of New York, the 12 northern counties of Ne ...

and economics professor at the

University of Dayton The University of Dayton (UD) is a private, Catholic research university in Dayton, Ohio. Founded in 1850 by the Society of Mary, it is one of three Marianist universities in the nation and the second-largest private university in Ohio. The univ ...

* Sewin Chan – Director of the

PhD PHD or PhD may refer to: * Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), an academic qualification Entertainment * '' PhD: Phantasy Degree'', a Korean comic series * '' Piled Higher and Deeper'', a web comic * Ph.D. (band), a 1980s British group ** Ph.D. (Ph.D. al ...

program,

NYU Wagner School of Public Service The Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service is the public policy school of New York University in New York City, New York. The school is named after New York City former mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. in 1989. History In 1938, NYU off ...

* Peter Kwong – professor of Asian American studies at

Hunter College Hunter College is a public university in New York City. It is one of the constituent colleges of the City University of New York and offers studies in more than one hundred undergraduate and postgraduate fields across five schools. It also admin ...

and professor of sociology in the

City University of New York The City University of New York ( CUNY; , ) is the public university system of New York City. It is the largest urban university system in the United States, comprising 25 campuses: eleven senior colleges, seven community colleges and seven pro ...

system *

Betty Lee Sung Betty Lee Sung (October 3, 1924 – January 19, 2023) was an American activist, author, and professor at City University of New York (CUNY). As a scholar of Asian American studies, her several publications on Asian American race issues have bee ...

– leading

literary Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to includ ...

authority on Chinese Americans and former professor at

City College of New York The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, Cit ...

* Tim Wu – professor at

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked i ...

* Yiju Huang – assistant professor of Chinese and comparative literature at

Fordham University Fordham University () is a private Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham neighborhood of the Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit un ...

Academia and sciences

– late

experimental physicist Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments an ...

and

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

professor *

–

scientific research The scientific method is an empirical method for acquiring knowledge that has characterized the development of science since at least the 17th century (with notable practitioners in previous centuries; see the article history of scientific m ...

er and Helen Wu professor at

– university professor

emeritus ''Emeritus'' (; female: ''emerita'') is an adjective used to designate a retired chair, professor, pastor, bishop, pope, director, president, prime minister, rabbi, emperor, or other person who has been "permitted to retain as an honorary title ...

at Columbia University,

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

winner in

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

* Z.Y. Fu – founder of the Fu Foundation School of Engineering at Columbia University

Business

* Sam Chang – real estate and hotel

developer Developer may refer to: Computers *Software developer, a person or organization who develop programs/applications * Video game developer, a person or business involved in video game development, the process of designing and creating games * Web de ...

* James S.C. Chao –

shipping magnate A business magnate, also known as a tycoon, is a person who has achieved immense wealth through the ownership of multiple lines of enterprise. The term characteristically refers to a powerful entrepreneur or investor who controls, through pers ...

and father of former

U.S. Cabinet The Cabinet of the United States is a body consisting of the vice president of the United States and the heads of the executive branch's departments in the federal government of the United States. It is the principal official advisory body to t ...

member

Elaine Chao Elaine Lan Chao (born March 26, 1953) is an American businesswoman and former government official. A member of the Republican Party, she served as the 18th United States secretary of transportation in the Trump administration from 2017 to 2021, ...

– billionaire businessman and political activist *

–

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

and president of Grameen America, a non-profit

microfinance Microfinance is a category of financial services targeting individuals and small businesses who lack access to conventional banking and related services. Microfinance includes microcredit, the provision of small loans to poor clients; savings ...

company with

philanthropy Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...

as its primary mission * Kim Y. Lew – CEO, Columbia Investment Management Co., manager of the multi-billion dollar

endowment Endowment most often refers to: *A term for human penis size It may also refer to: Finance * Financial endowment, pertaining to funds or property donated to institutions or individuals (e.g., college endowment) *Endowment mortgage, a mortgage to ...

Charles Wang Charles B. Wang (; August 19, 1944 – October 21, 2018) was a Chinese-American businessman and philanthropist, who was a co-founder and CEO of Computer Associates International, Inc. (later renamed CA Technologies). He was a minority owner (and ...

– late owner,

New York Islanders The New York Islanders (colloquially known as the Isles) are a professional ice hockey team based in Elmont, New York. The Islanders compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Metropolitan Division in the Eastern Conferenc ...

team of the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; french: Ligue nationale de hockey—LNH, ) is a professional ice hockey sports league, league in North America comprising 32 teams—25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. It is considered to be the top ranke ...

Entrepreneurship and technology

* Perry Chen – co-founder of

Kickstarter Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, ...

* Christopher Cheung – co-founder, Boxed * Chieh Huang – CEO and co-founder, Boxed * William Fong – co-founder, Boxed * Andrew Yang – founder, Venture for America; U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate; candidate, New York City mayoral election 2021; and pioneer of the

Universal Basic Income Universal basic income (UBI) is a social welfare proposal in which all citizens of a given population regularly receive an unconditional transfer payment, that is, without a means test or need to work. It would be received independently of ...

concept * David Zhu – co-founder, Enterproid

Law, politics, and diplomacy

* Margaret Chan –

New York State Supreme Court The Supreme Court of the State of New York is the trial-level court of general jurisdiction in the New York State Unified Court System. (Its Appellate Division is also the highest intermediate appellate court.) It is vested with unlimited civ ...

Civil Branch justice in Manhattan * Leigh Cheng – New York City Court judge, Brooklyn * Denny Chin – justice on the

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (in case citations, 2d Cir.) is one of the thirteen United States Courts of Appeals. Its territory comprises the states of Connecticut, New York and Vermont. The court has appellate ju ...

– first Chinese American woman elected to represent Manhattan's Chinatown on the

in 2009 * Edith Hsu-Chen – Executive director, New York City Department of City Planning, appointed by Mayor

Eric Adams Eric Leroy Adams (born September 1, 1960) is an American politician and retired police captain serving as the 110th mayor of New York City since January 1, 2022. Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York ...

in 2022 * Peter Koo – New York City councilman elected in 2009 to represent District 20 in

–

President of the United Nations Security Council The presidency of the United Nations Security Council is responsible for leading the United Nations Security Council. It rotates among the 15 member-states of the council monthly. The head of the country's delegation is known as the President of t ...

during months in 2011 and 2012 *

Doris Ling-Cohan Doris Ling-Cohan () is a justice of the New York State Supreme Court, to which she was elected in 2002. In 2014, Justice Ling-Cohan was appointed to the Appellate Term, First Department. She is the first woman of Asian descent to be appointed to a ...

– New York State Supreme Court Civil Branch justice in Manhattan * Liu Jieyi – Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations from 2013 to 2017 * John Liu – first Taiwanese American, Chinese American, and Asian American to be elected

, in 2009 * Ma Zhaoxu – current Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations, since January 2018 * Grace Meng – member of the

, representing New York's 6th congressional district in Queens * Sarah Min – activist *

– member of the

, representing the 65th District in

, elected in November 2016 *

Chi Ossé Chi A. Ossé (born March 18, 1998) is an American politician and activist from New York City who serves as a member of the New York City Council for the 36th district, which covers parts of central Brooklyn. Early life and education Ossé was b ...

– youngest ever member of the New York City Council to be elected, in January 2022 at age 23, to represent District 36 in

* Fred Teng – president and founder of the America China Public Affairs Institute in 2012 *

Qian Julie Wang Qian Julie Wang (Chinese: 王乾) is a Chinese-American writer and civil rights lawyer. Early life Qian Wang was born in Shijiazhuang, China to academic parents. Wang's mother was a professor of mathematics, while Wang's father was a pr ...

– writer,

civil rights Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life ...

lawyer *

Wenjian Liu On December20, 2014, Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley shot and killed Rafael Ramos and Wenjian two on-duty New York City Police Department (NYPD) in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Brinsley then fled into the New York City Subway, ...

– first Chinese American officer in the

New York City Police Department The New York City Police Department (NYPD), officially the City of New York Police Department, established on May 23, 1845, is the primary municipal law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act i ...

to die in the line of duty in 2014 * Wenliang Wang – honorary chairman,

NYU New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

Center on U.S.-China relations * Peter Yew – Chinese Americans first protested

police brutality Police brutality is the excessive and unwarranted use of force by law enforcement against an individual or a group. It is an extreme form of police misconduct and is a civil rights violation. Police brutality includes, but is not limited to ...

with high-profile activism outside

New York City Hall New York City Hall is the seat of New York City government, located at the center of City Hall Park in the Civic Center area of Lower Manhattan, between Broadway, Park Row, and Chambers Street. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building i ...

in May 1975, after the beating of this 27-year-old Chinese-American engineer who was a bystander at the scene of a traffic dispute in Chinatown in Manhattan. *

– Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations from 2008 to 2010

Media

* Ai Heping – journalist, ''

'' * An Rong Xu – photographer, journalist * Kathy YL Chan – journalist, ''

Bloomberg News Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg T ...

'' * Wilfred Chan – ''

The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers '' The Observer'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the ...

'' *

– journalist, multiple platforms *

Laura Chang Laura Chang (born in Seattle, Washington) is an American journalist. Education Chang graduated from the University of Washington in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science in communications, with an emphasis in psychology. Career Chang edited the B ...

– journalist, editor of the Booming blog, ''The New York Times'' * Lia Chang – actress and photographic journalist, multiple media platforms *

– investigative journalist, staff writer at ''

The New Yorker ''The New Yorker'' is an American weekly magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry. Founded as a weekly in 1925, the magazine is published 47 times annually, with five of these issues ...

'' * Aria Hangyu Chen –

multimedia Multimedia is a form of communication that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, or video into a single interactive presentation, in contrast to tradit ...

journalist * Brian X. Chen – lead consumer technology journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Caroline Chen – journalist, ''

ProPublica ProPublica (), legally Pro Publica, Inc., is a nonprofit organization based in New York City. In 2010, it became the first online news source to win a Pulitzer Prize, for a piece written by one of its journalists''The Guardian'', April 13, 2010P ...

'' * David W. Chen – investigative journalist,

City Hall In local government, a city hall, town hall, civic centre (in the UK or Australia), guildhall, or a municipal building (in the Philippines), is the chief administrative building of a city, town, or other municipality. It usually houses ...

bureau chief, ''The New York Times'' * Elaine Chen –

digital Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware *Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals ** Digital camera, which captures and stores digital ...

editor, ''The New York Times'' * Stefanos Chen – real estate reporter, ''The New York Times'' * Evelyn Cheng – journalist, ''

CNBC CNBC (formerly Consumer News and Business Channel) is an American basic cable business news channel. It provides business news programming on weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Eastern Time, while broadcasting talk s ...

'' * Roger Cheng – executive editor in charge of breaking news, '' CNET News'' * Paul Cheung – journalist, global director of

interactive Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but mo ...

and digital news production, ''

The Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. newsp ...

'' * Ronny Chieng – comedian * Andrew R. Chow – journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Denise Chow – science and technology editor, ''

NBC News NBC News is the news division of the American broadcast television network NBC. The division operates under NBCUniversal Television and Streaming, a division of NBCUniversal, which is, in turn, a subsidiary of Comcast. The news division's v ...

'' * Dominic Chu – journalist, ''CNBC'' *

– journalist * James Dao –

op-ed An op-ed, short for "opposite the editorial page", is a written prose piece, typically published by a North-American newspaper or magazine, which expresses the opinion of an author usually not affiliated with the publication's editorial board. ...

editor, ''The New York Times'' * Wendi Deng – media personality, film producer, and businessperson * Christina Fan – journalist, ''

WCBS-TV WCBS-TV (channel 2) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York–licensed independent station W ...

'' * Scarlet Fu – ''

Bloomberg Television Bloomberg Television (on-air as Bloomberg) is an American-based pay television network focusing on business and capital market programming, owned by Bloomberg L.P. It is distributed globally, reaching over 310 million homes worldwide. It is hea ...

'' anchor and

New York Stock Exchange The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is by far the world's largest stock exchange by market capitalization of its liste ...

reporter * Esther Fung – journalist, ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published ...

'' * Lisa Kailai Han – journalist, ''

Business Insider ''Insider'', previously named ''Business Insider'' (''BI''), is an American financial and business news website founded in 2007. Since 2015, a majority stake in ''Business Insider''s parent company Insider Inc. has been owned by the German publ ...

'' * Amy He – journalist, ''

'' * Angela He – corporate communications specialist, ''The New York Times'' * Gary He – ''

Vox Media Vox Media, Inc. is an American mass media company based in Washington, D.C., and New York City. The company was established in November 2011 by Jim Bankoff and Trei Brundrett to encompass ''SB Nation'' (a sports blog network founded in 2005 b ...

'' * Hezi Jiang – journalist, ''China Daily'' * Nicole Hong –

law enforcement Law enforcement is the activity of some members of government who act in an organized manner to enforce the law by discovering, deterring, rehabilitating, or punishing people who violate the rules and norms governing that society. The term ...

and courts journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Hong Xiao – journalist, ''China Daily'' * Cindy Hsu – journalist, ''WCBS-TV'' * Tiffany Hsu – business reporter, ''The New York Times'' * Winnie Hu – journalist, ''The New York Times'' *

Hua Hsu Hua Hsu (born 1977) is an American writer and academic, based in New York City. He is a professor of English at Bard College and a staff writer at ''The New Yorker''. His work includes investigations of immigrant culture in the United States, as ...

– journalist, ''The New Yorker'' *

– writer, author of '' Fresh Off the Boat: A Memoir'' * Virginia Huie – journalist, ''

News 12 Long Island News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to events. ...

'' * Jing Cao – journalist, ''Bloomberg News'' * K.K. Rebecca Lai –

graphics Graphics () are visual images or designs on some surface, such as a wall, canvas, screen, paper, or stone, to inform, illustrate, or entertain. In contemporary usage, it includes a pictorial representation of data, as in design and manufacture, ...

editor, ''The New York Times'' * Chau Lam – ''

Gothamist Gothamist LLC is the operator, or in some cases franchisor, of eight city-centric websites that focused on news, events, food, culture, and other local coverage. It was founded in 2003 by Jake Dobkin and Jen Chung. In March 2017, Joe Rickett ...

'' * Katherine Lam – digital producer, ''

Fox News The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is o ...

'' *

Jennifer 8. Lee Jennifer 8. Lee (Chinese name: ; pinyin: '; POJ: ') (born March 15, 1976) is an American journalist who previously worked for ''The New York Times''. She is also the co-founder and president of the literary studio Plympton, as well as a produce ...

– journalist, credits including ''The New York Times'' *

Melissa Lee Melissa Ji-Yun Lee ( ko, 이지연; born 1966) is a New Zealand politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP for the National Party in the 2008 election. , she is the National Party's spokesperson for broadcasting, ...

– news anchor, Fast Money on ''CNBC'' * Kristin Lin –

columnist, ''The New York Times'' * Betty Liu – news anchor, Bloomberg Television * Jennifer Liu – journalist, ''CNBC'' * Denise Lu – ''The New York Times'' * Lu Wang – journalist, ''Bloomberg News'' *

– news anchor, ''

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'' and ''

'' * Michael Luo – journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Sarah Min – investing reporter, ''CNBC'' * Alfred Ng – associate engagement editor, ''New York Daily News'' * Niu Yue – journalist, ''China Daily'' * Rong Xiaoqing – journalist, ''

Curbed ''Curbed'' is an American real estate and urban design website founded as a blog by Lockhart Steele in 2006. The full website, founded in 2010, featured sub-pages dedicated to specific real estate markets and metropolitan areas across the Uni ...

'' * Shiyu (Shelly) Xu – field producer, ''Fox News'' * Gillian Tan – Bloomberg ''Gadfly'' columnist covering

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and

mergers and acquisitions Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are business transactions in which the ownership of companies, other business organizations, or their operating units are transferred to or consolidated with another company or business organization. As an aspec ...

* Terry Tang – deputy editorial page editor, ''The New York Times'' * Kaity Tong – journalist, news anchor * Crystal Tse – ''Bloomberg News'' * Christine Wang – news editor, CNBC * Vivian Wang – journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Justin Wee –

photojournalist Photojournalism is journalism that uses images to tell a news story. It usually only refers to still images, but can also refer to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such ...

, ''The New York Times'' * Andrea Wong – journalist, ''Bloomberg News'' * Natalie Wong – journalist, ''Bloomberg News'' *

– media consultant, "Tao Jones" columnist for ''The Wall Street Journal'' * Kimberly Yam – journalist, ''

HuffPost ''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and ...

'' * Lucy Yang (disambiguate) – journalist, ''

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'' * Lucy Yang (disambiguate) – '' Zola'' * Maya Yang – journalist, ''

'' * Yueqi Yang – journalist, ''Bloomberg News'' *

–

radio personality A radio personality (American English) or radio presenter (British English) is a person who has an on-air position in radio broadcasting. A radio personality who hosts a radio show is also known as a radio host, and in India and Pakistan as a rad ...

* Vivian Yee – journalist, ''The New York Times'' * Claudia Yeung – communications director,

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, New York * William Yu –

digital media Digital media is any communication media that operate in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital media can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronics device. ...

strategist * Jada Yuan – travel correspondent, ''The New York Times'' * Yun Li – journalist, CNBC * Benjamin P. Zhang – journalist, ''

'' * Raymond Zhong –

climate change In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to ...

journalist, part of the 2021

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winning team for

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coverage, ''The New York Times'' * Zijia Song – journalist, multiple media platforms

Theater, arts, and culture

* Celia Au – actress and

filmmaker Filmmaking (film production) is the process by which a motion picture is produced. Filmmaking involves a number of complex and discrete stages, starting with an initial story, idea, or commission. It then continues through screenwriting, castin ...

* Awkwafina (Nora Lum) – Korean-Chinese actress and

rapper Rapping (also rhyming, spitting, emceeing or MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular". It is performed or chanted, usually over a backing beat or musical accompaniment. The ...

* Malan Breton – fashion designer * Kevin Chan – fashion designer * Amy Chang – actress * Angel Chang – fashion designer * Cheung Pei Pei – actress *

– Korean-Chinese multi-hyphenate entertainer and

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social activist Activism (or Advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good. Forms of activism range ...

* David Chu – fashion designer *

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– late author of Chinese cookbooks *

– fashion designer * Ying Fang – principal

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at the

Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is opera ...

– supermodel * Vivienne Hu – fashion designer *

–

playwright,

librettist A libretto (Italian for "booklet") is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major litu ...

, and screenwriter * MC Jin –

Jonathan Koon Jonathan Koon is a Chinese American entrepreneur, artist, and fashion designer who became a self-made millionaire at the age of 16. Early career Koon was born in 1983 in the Borough of Queens in New York City, the only child of immigrant ...

– fashion designer * Derek Lam – fashion designer *

Ming Cho Lee Ming Cho Lee (; October 3, 1930 – October 23, 2020) was a Chinese-American theatrical set designer and professor at the Yale School of Drama. Personal life Lee was born on Oct. 3, 1930, in Shanghai, China to Lee Tsu Fa and Tang Ing. Lee, whose ...

– set designer *

– founder of ''

'' *

Humberto Leon Humberto Leon (born June 7, 1975) is an American fashion designer, retailer and creative director, working in partnership with Carol Lim. Leon and Lim founded the fashion retailer Opening Ceremony in 2002 in Lower Manhattan. Further stores fol ...

– fashion designer * Li Yu – actress *

– fashion designer * Jenny Lin – pianist * Joseph Lin – violinist * Ling Tan – supermodel *

– actress, fashion model, and artist * Liu Wen – supermodel *

– artist, actor, and

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model *

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– former actress and

martial artist Martial arts are codified systems and traditions of combat practiced for a number of reasons such as self-defense; military and law enforcement applications; competition; physical, mental, and spiritual development; entertainment; and the preserv ...

, aka "'' Lady Kung Fu''" *

Peter Mui Peter Kan Mui (April 29, 1953 – August 18, 2009) was a Chinese-American fashion designer. He was known most for his brand YellowMan, which was a successful high-end tattoo clothing brand. The last recorded revenue for the brand was $12 millio ...

– fashion designer, actor, and musician * I.M. Pei – world-renowned late

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Mary Ping Mary Ping (born 1978) is an American fashion designer based in New York City. She is best known for her conceptual label "Slow and Steady Wins the Race" (founded in New York in 2001-2), although she has also designed under her own label. Biograp ...

– fashion designer *

– choreographer, stage designer * Mimi So –

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* Phillipa Soo –

actress * Peter Som – fashion designer * Anna Sui – fashion designer * Brandon Sun – fashion designer *

– fashion designer * Oscar and Hsin Mei Agnes Hsu Tang –

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s to the

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on the

Zang Toi Zang Toi (born 11 June 1961) is a Malaysian designer of Chinese descent, based in New York City. Early life He was born to an ethnic Hainanese family in the Kuala Krai district in the state of Kelantan, Malaysia on 11 June 1961. Toi left Malay ...

– fashion designer * Alexander Wang – fashion designer *

– fashion designer *

– concert pianist * Jason Wu – fashion designer * Ximan Li – filmmaker * Xin Ying – modern dancer *

Sophia Yan Sophia Yan (嚴倩君, pinyin: Yán Qiànjūn, b. October 8, 1986) is an American classical pianist, journalist and Beijing correspondent at The Daily Telegraph. Early life and education Yan was born to Taiwanese parents in Queens, New York. ...

– classical pianist *

Bowen Yang Bowen Yang ( zh, link=no, 楊伯文; born November 6, 1990) is an Australian-born American actor, comedian, podcaster, and writer based in New York City. He co-hosts a comedy pop-culture podcast, '' Las Culturistas,'' with Matt Rogers. Since Se ...

– writer and actor, ''

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'' * Yeohlee Teng – fashion designer * Yuhua Hamasaki –

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Joe Zee Joe Zee (born November 23, 1968) is a Hong Kong-born Canadian fashion stylist, journalist, and producer, known for ''Entertainment Tonight'' (1981), '' FABLife'' (2015) and ''Celebrity Style Story'' (2012). Zee served as creative director of ''Elle ...

–

fashion stylist Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. The term implies a look defined by the fashion in ...

References

Sources

* Lee, Josephine Tsui Yueh. ''New York City's Chinese Community''.

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